Stephen Lewis, final address

[scarscanbebeautiful]

You call the New England Journal of Medicine, the American Cancer Society "pseudo-science"? Where'd you get YOUR facts from? I'll tell you where I got mine: 8 weeks in Tanzania volunteering in an HIV/AIDS prevention and support for PLHIV project. Many of our local staff members are now HIV positive because they did not have access to sanitary circumcisions and medicare. They'd be disgusted to hear that you're promoting your own personal bias to impede their access to circumcision.

[drealgrin]

@scarscanbebeautiful If you'd read the study you'd find that Circumcision does NOT Prevent HIV.

Tell me, how many men are going to have sex with a bleeding painful penis? That already gives an edge to the mutilated group because they ARE ABSTINENT FOR THE ENTIRE HEALING PROCESS.

Were the intact group given the same medical care as the cut group?The same safe sex education? If you WERE cut and you got HIV. Would you really want to return to the monsters who mutilated your penis?

Inconclusive

[drealgrin]

@drealgrin But the biggest difference is I don't treat these African men as if they are cattle to be managed. They are people just as we are, we have no right to be lying to them and to give them false hope that circumcision prevents HIV (which it doesn't.)

You still have to wear a condom and practice safe sex.

It's not a personal bias i'm promoting. It's basic human rights. Male Genital Mutilation as HIV Prevention is misinformation and beyond offensive.

[drealgrin]

@scarscanbebeautiful also, explain how the USA one of the most mutilated countries in the world also has some of the highest HIV rates among developed nations?

We've been running our own tests and HIV IS NOT PREVENTED BY GENITAL MUTILATION.

[ctkmobambi]

aids was created to control population growth by some of these bastards dont believe them , pandemic my ass,u full of shit ,listen 2 this fag.boooooooooooo

[NG135]

@Bonobo3D Yes he may have been mistaken with promoting circumcision, but at the same time, he has spoken in front of millions to inspire them to do SOMETHING about the pandemic. He has a successful foundation which has now raised millions of dollars fighting HIV/AIDS in Africa. I don't think that someone who has raised all this awareness deserves a title such as "disgusting" and "disappointment".

[Bonobo3D]

@NG135 Stephen Lewis is arrogant and self serving. He is in the chaarity business. That he promotes genital mutilation of children wipes out the so called good he does.

[drealgrin]

You can tell this man wishes he was born with a vagina, he has such an obvious regret for being born a man that he wishes to punish all men by making Genital Mutilation (circumcision) Necessary in order to fight HIV.

EVERYONE should be allowed to keep ALL of their body parts, without sick psychopaths driving to have people cut up. Nobody has any right to cut off healthy and normal tissue from anyone else AT ANY COST without their consent.

[scarscanbebeautiful]

@drealgrin Seriously??? A meta-analysis of circumcision and HIV/AIDS found that "Male circumcision is associated with a significantly reduced risk of HIV infection among men in sub-Saharan Africa, particularly those at high risk of HIV. These results suggest that consideration should be given to the acceptability and feasibility of providing safe services for male circumcision as an additional HIV prevention strategy in areas of Africa where men are not traditionally circumcised."

[drealgrin]

@scarscanbebeautiful You can't hack off the most sensitive part of a person's penis and expect that to reduce HIV transmission. Reducing sensitivity then requires the man to thrust harder to achieve the same amount of satisfaction, which in turn increases the chances of tearing and HIV transmission. Who wants to have LESS sensitivity and still be forced to wear a condom?

What these disgustingly biased pseudoscientists were studying for is a way to validate male genital mutilation.

[scarscanbebeautiful]

@drealgrin Circumcision also protects men from other STIs, skin infections, UTIs, penile cancer, and the list goes on and on. Genital mutilation is a ritual practice that jeopardizes human health, S-L is proposing that adequate medical services be provided to men to ENSURE human health. Would you honestly jeopardize the health of men around the world (and their partners from HIV transmission) because YOU have a problem with circumcision???

[drealgrin]

@scarscanbebeautiful I suppose you're one for breast amputation as well? Breast cancer which affects and kills far more women and men than any foreskin related illness ever could hope to.

In reality, circumcision cures NOTHING. And immediately causes a wound which must be cared for.

There isn't a single reputable study that concludes MGM helps with reducing HIV.AIDS. We are lying to Africans to normalize circumcision throughout the world.

[drealgrin]

This motherfucker believes in the end justifying the means.

He promotes genital mutilation of males because he's too cowardly to back up genital mutilation of females as a HIV Preventative.

HIV is a worthy cause to get behind, but not at the cost of treating people as if they are cattle that need have their body parts mutilated to prevent it's spread.

He speaks of gender equality, but refuses to acknowledge that men have the right to grow up with all of their body parts, just like girls can.

[RoseFink]

Bombasic charlatan. Stephen Lewis promotes genital mutilation of children to "slow the spread of AIDS".

History will show that this opportunist is a phoney and a fraud.

[convulsionaire]

Perhaps the biggest fraud to ever slither across the face of the planet. AIDS is a WHO creation. The UN is a genocidal racket. Stephen Lewis also attempted to set up Shelley Anne Clarke for assassination when she exposed how Reisman, Desmarais and co. sold out Canada with the NAFTA agreement. Wake up. Do the research.

[hdiylove7]

Just stopping in to share National Sunday Law by A. Jan Marcussen=)

[billjoe39]

This pompous man with the unwarranted reputation as a Canadian "liberal" politician tried to sell A.I.D.S as an African disease, once again reinforcing the Western notion that black people are a source of illness and corruption. This is nothing new, attempts were made in 1983 to link Haitians with A.I.D.S, and indeed such tactics have been used for hundreds of years by colonialists and and exploiters as pretexts for dominating African peoples. Same old script.

[marupardal]

Does he always speak that fast?

[josephlandsberg]

im related to him, his wife Michelle Landsberg is my grandpas sister

[Staypositive14]

He came to our school today! :)

what a great speech!

[nickybrowny]

my absoulute hero...a latter day tommy douglas!

[XUPN]

He is a great orator. Obviously, some, just ignorant people just don't get "it"!

This is a respected man and leader. Thank God for people like him.

[robotpeople]

I can't stand the way this ass-pirate preaches with his thesauri-inspired drivel!

HIV was a created virus!...and you don't address that issue...you don't touch it!

Lewis was a university flunky! (in more instances than one)

[scottyf44]

Part of the reason for his tone is because he's actually pissed off. I went to a lecture by Avi Lewis, his son, at a college I used to attend. Avi said that his father is in therapy because of the horrors he's seen in Africa. Before that, his therapy composed of speaking to a thousand people at a time. He was also Canada's ambassador to the UN, and did other UN work, probably explaining his vocabulary.

[naomistudent]

there are 2 kinds of HIV...

1 was created, the other came from monkeys...

[TonyKaku]

@robotpeople You are a pure, unadultrated moron.

[bproudman]

An astonishing speaker -- a great humanitarian! An excellent role model.

[SheenaJ]

I was at this speech - he was amazing.

[robotpeople]

your idiocy is amazing

[deapotato]

It was a tremendous privilege to hear him speak and later ask him some heart wrenching questions that address the gripping realities -- and not the dithering response so many have witnessed and have anguished.

[TonyKaku]

Stunning. What a speaker. He is such a rare breed these days.

I don't totally agree that "all roads lead from women to social change," but, just getting my feel wet now in a Jordanian NGO working on desert reversal, I know that it is generally the case that you can't get much productive work out of men, but you can out of women. They are the best to get on your side with your project.

[mishkaoutofcontrol]

Had the chance to hear him speak in person - riveting!

[uzebdrumz]

important info...sad the views are so low.

[Itachiii]

Lol. I go to the school named after stephen lewis himself .